Monday, January 5, 2009

Hello All-

Happy New Years! I hope that it was great for all of you.
I celebrated it by being deep asleep when midnight came
around.

On New Years Eve there was a huge police chase down here.
The person drove into Wal-mart (maybe 2-3 minutes from our
place). They had police helicopters out, and the SWAT team
etc. Crazy stuff! I'm sure you can find it online.

The biggest news this week is that we should have a
baptism on Saturday, I'll send pictures next week. It's
the Garcia and Lozano kids. We still have a little bit to
teach them, but they've been going to church for several
months now, so that's been awesome. The kids love us a
ton, and always want us to stay and hang out with them.

Well, time to talk about the investigators.

Martha- Well, our lessons were crazy with her this week.
On Friday, we were over there, talking in her garage, and
she asked us if she could get a blessing of comfort (after
we had offered it). We obliged, but just as we were about
her boyfriend came storming in, yelling, and all mad at
us. I didn't understand everything he was saying because
he was yelling in Spanish, and the Spirit definitely
wasn't there, but I caught several things. He was sick of
us 'always' being there. He also said that he was going
to leave the room for a couple minutes, and if we hadn't
left, there was going to be problems... We left. We
haven't had the opportunity to give her a blessing, and
we're not sure exactly what happened. Martha stood up for
us, and for us and was telling him that it was her life,
and her house, that he has no right to say anything to us
about it.

Asusena, Yoshio, Gustavo - Well, Asusena is living in a
room on top of her boss' house. The boss is a crazy
Catholic lady that is super mean to us. We were up
there, and she freaked out and told us to leave, and told
Asusena that she couldn't talk to us there, or outside.
We left, and Asusena, Yoshio, and Gustavo came with us
on a walk to a park, where we had a lesson. The kids
consistently come to church, and Asusena wants to, but
her boss won't let her take ANY time off. Anyway, yeah,
there's been a lot of frustration there lately, but God
will provide a way.

I am continuing to grow and learn. It's a trying
experience, but it's been great thus far.

I love you all!

Con amor,

Elder Meservy